Seussical! The Musical!

For the past three months, a classmate and I have been working together to put together our piece for the annual Fullerton College Theatre Festival. Since my classmate and I have a huge passion for musical theatre, we obviously registered under the 10 minute musical theatre category. We are going in with a 10 minute compilation of Seussical! The Musical! (Yeah. THE Dr. Seuss.)

Since it's our last year at IPoly, we really wanted to make sure we shone at our final Fullerton performance. In this case, we decided to base our 10 minute piece on the story of Mayzie and Gertrude.

Our song choices include:
1. Oh the Thinks You Can Think
2. The One Feather Tail of Miss Gertrude McFuzz
3. Amayzing Mayzie
4. Amazing Gertrude

The opening song sets the mood for the entire piece. It talks about imagination and that a single "think" can create absolutely anything. This leads straight into the next song which begins the story where Gertrude McFuzz is unsatisfied with her small tail because it won't attract Horton the Elephant (who she is attracted to). The next song talks about Mayzie, a bird with extremely elegant and big feathers who says she used to be like Gertrude, but with a couple of pills from Doctor Dake, she grew a marvelous tail. The last song has to do with Gertrude going to Doctor Dake, getting the pills, and finally getting the huge tail she desires.

Although it seems like story about a girl changing herself for a man, we like to think that the theme is more about imagination and that anything can happen. We really hope to get into finals, or at least receive high markings at the competition.